House committee to vote on bill to grant DC statehood
The House Oversight and Reform Committee is slated to hold a vote on Wednesday to approve a bill that would grant statehood to Washington, D.C.
“Today is an historic day for our country — and our democracy,” House oversight committee chair Rep. Carolyn Maloney said in her opening remarks on Wednesday. “For only the second time in a generation, we will vote on whether hundreds of thousands of American citizens will finally have their voices counted in Congress.
“The United States is the only democratic country that denies both voting rights in the national legislature...
